Its being ages since I last went onto this forum, I recall your camp oven forum a couple years back... unfortunitly I can't post my dog forum back up here as its no longer with YaBB - though in saying that I still have the YaBB forum installed on a directory I ended up migrating to Wordpress for the blogging and in doig that learnt php ... however i would have never got into forums and website building if it wasn't for YaBB and all the people on here

I do miss the YaBB forum and regretted using my current one, but it was the only one which seemed to work with wordpress

I've also done quite a bit of work with regards to adsense and forum optimisation... which i've found extremely tricky - blogging applications CTR are great... forums are terrible is there a discussion on adsense and YaBB forums yet?

Yes, I have to admit it is pretty quiet. Didn't get too many comments on my latest forum ... that's ok, didn't get many real members, either ... there are two of us. Still, the forum serves it's purpose, and I am still glad to have it!

Took another look at yours for the first time in two or three years, and it still looks pretty nice!

Derek, I really like how you integrated your website into your forum; very nicely done. The same beautiful background is a very nice touch.

I noticed that you have an interesting way to keep spammers from registering in your forum, and that you wisely included a "Registration Help" link in your menu.

Especially because YaBB makes it so easy through the Admin Center to modify your "user agreement" and also your "Forum Help" sections, you might want to think of including at least one line about the special instructions that you've presented for registering in your forum.

Your forum is already pretty perfect as it is; just saying.

So maybe in both your "user agreement" and your "Forum Help" sections people might see the following (or however you choose to word it, with an emphasis in red, or not):

Keep in mind, too, through Admin Center you can also easily edit the message people get when they receive an automated rejection of their registration. In "Forum Controls" under "Email Messages" you can edit the appropriate file (verified in YaBB 2.4).

Isn't it great that YaBB gives us the ability to do these kind of things?

Morning, noon, or night, have a great one!

Note: Like most others, this forum doesn't allow us to freely edit our posts or topics to make corrections as needed, so please remember to look for subsequent posts if you see any mistakes or outdated information. Sorry for the inconvenience.

... you might want to think of including at least one line about the special instructions that you've presented for registering in your forum....

Sorry; evidently this forum no longer allows for the modification of one's own posts (at least this one post of mine that as of this new post is only a little over an hour old). So ...

Ironically, Derek, I hadn't even followed my own advice.

But thanks to you, as an example, in our forum we now have a line at the top of our user agreement just below the Verification Code box that reads as follows:

Important: Carefully read the instructions about what to type in the Verification Code box above. You need to remember not to include the first two and last two characters.

Highlighted, our notice is kind of hard to miss.

Morning, noon, or night, have a great one!

Note: Like most others, this forum doesn't allow us to freely edit our posts or topics to make corrections as needed, so please remember to look for subsequent posts if you see any mistakes or outdated information. Sorry for the inconvenience.

...Sorry; evidently this forum no longer allows for the modification of one's own posts (at least this one post of mine that as of this new post is only a little over an hour old). So ...

Okay; evidently I can still modify my own posts in other parts of this forum, if it's done within 5 days, but some kind of bug is immediately locking this particular topic; at least for me.

Morning, noon, or night, have a great one!

Note: Like most others, this forum doesn't allow us to freely edit our posts or topics to make corrections as needed, so please remember to look for subsequent posts if you see any mistakes or outdated information. Sorry for the inconvenience.

...Okay; evidently I can still modify my own posts in other parts of this forum, if it's done within 5 days, but some kind of bug is immediately locking this particular topic; at least for me....

Now I remember!

I seem to recall that a bug in YaBB 2.5 was reported that mentioned how posts will lock up when an Ex Member is listed.

Additionally, I just noticed that this same bug also ignores a member's setting to view posts in reverse order.

Morning, noon, or night, have a great one!

Note: Like most others, this forum doesn't allow us to freely edit our posts or topics to make corrections as needed, so please remember to look for subsequent posts if you see any mistakes or outdated information. Sorry for the inconvenience.

As I've mentioned before, this is yet another reason to choose YaBB over other forum software; the flexibility is superior.

Morning, noon, or night, have a great one!

Note: Like most others, this forum doesn't allow us to freely edit our posts or topics to make corrections as needed, so please remember to look for subsequent posts if you see any mistakes or outdated information. Sorry for the inconvenience.